Nicholas Fairbank lives and works in Victoria, BC, Canada. His music has been described as "carefully crafted," "consistently elegant, and devoted to beauty as a vehicle for text..." - "a composer worth studying". His works have been performed across North America and in Europe by such groups as the Turning Point Ensemble, Hexaphone, organists Patrick Wedd, Martin Stacey and Valerie Hall, sopranos Catherine Fern Lewis, Elizabeth MacIsaac and Kerry-Anne Kutz, pianist Richard Raymond and the Quatuor Molinari. Recent commissions have come from Victoria's Ensemble Laude, the Viva Youth Choirs, and the Royal Canadian College of Organists.